What's on at BLSA

The Medic Portal are currently recruiting medical students with a passion for teaching to join their team.

They will provide comprehensive training in their methodology for teaching the UKCAT, and if interested, the BMAT. Once trained, you will be delivering one day courses and one-on-one tutoring, both in-person and online. It’s a great way for you to demonstrate your teaching ability in future job applications, with excellent remuneration.

Ever wanted to speak to a doctor about their specialty and how they got there? Here's your chance!

Come to our event to hear more about some of the specialties you are most interested in, including Infectious Diseases, Obs/Gyn, Surgery, GP and Emergency Medicine, as well as doctors currently completing their FY training. There will be a panel of doctors discussing their work life, how they got there, balancing their family commitments and answering any questions you may have!

​Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) is delighted to invite all Year 3 students to a week of revision lectures in the run up to their ICAs, at the end of February.All students are welcome – no sign ups necessary.

Barts Photography Exhibition 2018 - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!Nominations are being accepted for this year’s Barts and The London Photography Exhibition, as part of the annual Barts Arts celebration, and it is open to your submissions!

This is an open call with no set theme, and it doesn’t matter whether it was taken on a camera phone, professional type camera or even on traditional film! The exhibition is open to all Barts and The London students.

Please send all submissions to photography@bartslondon.com by 23:59, on Wednesday the 7th of March. Please include your name, year and course of study, year the photo was taken and any additional information you would like to provide.

Would you like to volunteer at one of the largest and most popular marathons in the world? Every year, QMSU Volunteering recruits around 80 volunteers to be stewards at a particular section of the race in East London.

The application process is slightly different from the usual QMSU Volunteering opportunities so make sure you read through the requirements carefully.

This Tuesday, to mark Shrove Tuesday, The Griff Inn menu will be featuring sweet and savoury American pancakes all day, including mouth-watering banana & chocolate sauce pancakes, or sumptuous cheese & mushroom pancakes.​Selected items will remain on the menu. Halal and vegetarian options are available

If you are aged 16-40 and have eyestrain or headache from computers (which could affect 30-70% of the population), you could join a study looking at helping sufferers of these issues.

This is a study being run by the Institute of Optometry in Elephant & Castle, who have seen over 70 participants, receiving excellent feedback from almost every one of them.

​Those who attend receive an in-depth examination, lasting over one hour, with special tests that are rarely done in the UK. After the examination, participants are sent a personal report explaining the problems and what to do. Further, if spectacles are needed, a spectacle prescription is given.

If you are a healthy volunteer, you could join a study “Investigating the effector vagal nerve stimulation on reversing visually induced motion sickness on healthy volunteers”. Travel expenses will be compensated.

​This is a simple research study which will involve two short visits to the Wingate Institute of Neurogastroenterology in Whitechapel (across the street from the Perrin Lecture Theatre).

Honorary Clinical Research FellowCentre for Neuroscience and TraumaBlizard Institute, Wingate Institute of NeurogastroenterologyBarts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London

The TASME spring conference is a one-day medical education conference aimed at trainee doctors interested in medical education. The day will feature prominent keynote speakers and interactive workshops focusing on establishing and maintaining a career in medical education.

The conference is targeted at trainees with all levels of experience in medical education, aiming to help advance your career whether this be at an introductory or more advanced level.

Importantly, there will also be ample opportunity to share your medical education work on a national level by submitting abstracts for both oral and poster presentations (Abstract Deadline: 18th February 2018).

Wessex Critical Programme: EPIC ConferenceWhere: Southampton General HospitalWhen: Saturday 17th & 18th March​Tickets are on sale from February 7th for the Wessex Critical Care Programme’s Inter-Professional Critical Care Conference. The conference is open to all allied health students.Tickets are £25 for Saturday, and £50 for the weekend.

Uniting for Peace Spring Conference: “Can We Unite for Peace: Building Citizen Power for Change”Where: Wesley’s Chapel, 49 City Road, London, EC1Y 1AUWhen: 12:00-17:00 (AGM at 10:30-11:45), Saturday 10th March

There are many peace organisations doing exemplary work on single issues like abolition of war, ending arms trade, nuclear disarmament, poverty reduction, countering terrorism and extremism, violations of human rights and mitigation of climate change. However, the impact is not fully realized as while the goal of achieving peace is the same, the work is not done together together. Living in an interdependent world, with more and more global threats and challenges, there is a need to work together in a concerted and united way to tackle the interlinked global issues through peace activism.

Instead of focusing on thematic forums such as militarism, water, migration or nuclear disarmament, how about if all these numerous organizations worked together to search a common ground in unity to build citizen power, a force to reckon with and work together for building a momentum for change. The purpose of working together is to transform violent conflict, advance human development, promote just and harmonious societies and protect the planet in a shorter span of time.

Expert speakers from Uniting for Peace and various peace, human rights and environmental organizations will examine critical issues affecting world peace and explore how an atmosphere of working together can be built to tackle the root causes of wars, violence, terrorism, and mitigate climate change crisis in order to build a peaceful world. Can we come up with a plan of common action towards this goal?

Register by contacting Vijay Mehta (email vijay@vmpeace.org or call 0207 791 1717).This is a free, public event, although donations are welcome (please send cheques payable to Uniting for Peace, and post it to 14 Cavell Street, London E1 2HP)

Dr Olivia Protti, a consultant perinatal psychiatrist, who runs the Mother and Baby Unit at the City and Hackney Centre for Mental Health (a unique facility accommodating both mothers and their babies, when the mother needs care for conditions such as perinatal psychosis and other mental health conditions), will be sharing her experience of working in this unique crossover between Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Psychiatry, as well as offering general guidance surrounding mental health during pregnancy and the postnatal period.

The Griffin House holds volunteering events (both in Shaftesbury Lodge, the local sheltered housing, and at Toynbee Hall, in Aldgate), as well as running a befriending scheme. The aim of these is to help reduce social isolation in the elderly population of the East End.

The Griffin House consists of 23 students who live together in subsidized accommodation (£85/wk) in Poplar. Students at Griffin House work together to organise and participate in these events and befriending schemes, living as part of a fantastic community of students, both medics and dentists, graduates and school leavers.

Application deadline: Friday 23rd of FebruaryInterviews on Saturday & Sunday 3rd-4th and 10th-11th of March.Successful applicants will be told by the end of March.If you have any questions email: students@griffincommunitytrust.org

Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry have been working with and supporting a new medical school in Aksum, north Ethiopia, since 2012.

​The School has been sending teams of academics, clinicians and students to Aksum Faculty of Health Sciences to assist in developing teaching skills and clinical provision within the new teaching hospital.

A number of students have visited, working with the Barts and The London staff, working with Ethiopian students and also learning more about disease and health care in that area.

For any students who would be interested in supporting the Partnership in the future, there is a steering group meeting on February 20th. If you are interested in being involved, please email: j.h.fuller@qmul.ac.uk

Dr Jonathan FullerCentre for Medical EducationBarts and The London School of Medicine and DentistryQueen Mary, University of London

Physiotherapy and sports massage discounts available to all Barts and The London and Queen Mary students at the London Physiotherapy and Wellness Practice.Group sessions are also available to sports teams in bulk to save more.

Not only are students offered a discounted rate for related physio treatments, but also the opportunity to shadow the practice’s Lead Physiotherapists, with up to 3-5 placements per term. This will be beneficial for any student studying Physiotherapy, Sport Science and other degree levels within Health and wellness.

Medical and dental students are required to write questions for an organisation which helps students improve their scores on the UKCAT. Writers will be given materials and guidance throughout the process.

Payment is made within two weeks of submission of questions. £100 is paid for every ten UKCAT questions submitted, with a bonus of £250 at one hundred questions submitted. For further information, please email: ukcatquestions@gmail.com

You are invited to a stimulating event at FieldFisher’s London offices. There will be a high calibre of speakers including two of Saving Face’s Trustees, Professor Simon Holmes and Dr Susan Tanner. All speakers have promised to provide an educational insight into many aspects of maxillofacial injuries including: trauma, reconstructive dentistry, plastics, prosthetics, camouflage makeup, the terms of ongoing rehabilitation and how we can support those to cope with dramatic changes in their appearance.

ESI are organizing an academic conference at the Green Garden Hotel in April 2018. You are invited to register and present your paper at the upcoming event.

The European Scientific Institute is organizing a forum which will gather academics from all around the globe, who will present their papers in various academic domains such as: economics, law, social work, sociology, management, politics, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, medicine, engineering, IT, physics and mathematics.

PublicationsBook of abstracts will be delivered during the conference.Book of proceedings will be published within 30 days after the event.

Publication in a peer-reviewed journal:The papers will be published in an EBSCO indexed journal – the European Scientific Journal, ESJProceedings of the forum will be indexed in:Google ScholarAcademia.eduResearch Bible

The European Scientific Journalis a mega-journal with more than 18,000 authors in its archive.ESJ website has over 8 million visits in 7 years of academic publishing. It is a pioneer of agile and open peer review procedure and supporter of the open access publishing concept.The journal is indexed in: Google Scholar, Ebsco, ProQuest, and Sherpa Romeo, etc.The ISF 2018 papers will be published as an ESJ special edition

Join to celebrate the completion of a project to catalogue the archives of St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College and discover more about the collection.

The archive traces the history of the Medical College from its 18th century antecedents, inspired by the work of renowned surgeon John Abernethy (1764-1831), up to its merger in 1995 with the London Hospital Medical College and Queen Mary and Westfield College. The Medical College now forms part of Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London.

For the ACS’s first external speaker event, Olivette Otele, a professor of British and French colonial history, who has made appearances on BBC an French news channels, will be offering her take on the current post-colonial issues that are affecting Africa and the Caribbean, and the issues face by current generations and their ancestors.

​Attendance is free for BL-ACS members, and £1 for QM ACS members.Subs (£5) may be purchased here https://www.qmsu.org/groups/blacs/

Nominations close at 17:00, Thursday 1st February (extended by 24 hours!), for Blues & Colours. These awards mark finalists’ contribution towards their student groups during their time at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Student groups are responsible for nominating.

http://www.bartslondon.com/colours-and-blues.html​Nominations are now open until Valentine’s Day, for the Students’ Union Spring Elections. These elections allow you to run for a position of leadership in your BLSA. You may nominate others, as well as run yourself